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Emeritus Prof Peter Appleby BE (1st class Hons), BSc, PhD

Emeritus Professor Mathematical Sciences

Research

Research Interest 1

Modelling fallout radionuclides and their use as tools for studying environmental change.

Research Grants

Radiometric analyses and dating of sediment cores.

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (BELGIUM), MCGILL UNIVERSITY (CANADA), UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH (UK)

August 2008 - March 2012

European Mountain Lake Ecosystems: regionalisation, diagnostics and socio-economic evaluation (EMERGE).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

February 2000 - January 2003

Visiting IAEA Fellows.

BRITISH COUNCIL (UK)

October 2003 - March 2004

Research Collaborations

Dr Maria Letizia Filippi

External: Museo Tridentino Scienze Naturali

Dating lake sediment records as part of the CRENODAT project.

Professor N J Anderson, Dr D B Ryves

External: Loughborough University

Dating environmental records in lake sediment cores from Greenland, and from Central Africa

Professor John King

External: University of Rhode Island

Dating estuarine and saltmarsh sediments

Dr Ann Power

External: Edge Hill College of HE

Dating sediment records from Urban Ponds on Merseyside

Prof. Dr. Dirk Verschuren

External: The University of Ghent

Dating records of environmental change in lake sediment cores from Central Africa

Dr Barbara Mauz

Internal

Analysis of uranium series radionuclides in sediment samples

Annette Kramer

External: Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Dating sediment records from lakes on the Tibetan plateau

Plater AJ,

Internal

Dating saltmarsh records